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Background

Dr. Sharon Turban is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include nephrology and polycystic kidney disease.

Dr. Turban earned her M.D. from Loyola University and her M.H.S. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her residency at Baylor College of Medicine and performed a fellowship in nephrology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Turban joined the Johns Hopkins faculty as an assistant professor of medicine in 2009.

Education

Degrees

Residencies

Fellowships

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Nephrology (2007)

Board Certifications

American Board of Internal Medicine / Nephrology
(2008)

Research & Publications

Research Summary

Dr. Turban’s clinical research interests include the regulation of blood pressure and prevention of kidney disease, particularly the effects of sodium and potassium on blood pressure and on kidney function. She is the Principal Investigator of the completed American Heart Association-funded Chronic Kidney Disease-Potassium (CKD-K) clinical trial, which investigated the effects of dietary potassium in patients with kidney disease. She is also a Co-Investigator of several other research studies, including an intervention trial investigating the safety and efficacy of a vasopressin receptor antagonist in polycystic kidney disease, the NIH/NIDDK-sponsored Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study, and an NIH-sponsored set of trials investigating the efficacy of tailored dietary advice and mineral supplements on lowering blood pressure.